NT-12
April 20, 2006
Do you like cartoons? Most children do as long as they’re not too scary. Here’s one they might stare at over and over again.
Do you like apples?
NT-12 did. She just couldn’t stand up to eat them without help anymore. Or drink, or swallow, or breathe.
1. Caseous Lymphadenitis with:
a-Nephritis, suppurative (abscesses), multifocal (embolic), bilateral
b-Internal abscesses in: abdominal wall, diaphragm, liver, internal iliac lymph nodes
c-Positive serology for C. pseudotuberculosis
Etiology: Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis
2. Stomatitis, locally extensive, necrotizing, with plant material. Probable traumatic (food) etiology
3. Low copper and vitamin E status
4. Sarcocystis spp. infestation, severe, incidental
5. Glomerulosclerosis, multifocal, chronic
6. Fungal culture pending
7. Scrapie results pendin
Pathologist’s notes state: “These sheep had multifocal health problems including caseous lymphadenitis, copper and vitamin E deficiency and severe Sarcocystis spp. infestation. Please consider reviewing the health and nutritional management of the flock to control/prevent these problems in other animals.”
How’d ya like those apples?
